INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia fired dozens of drones and missiles at Ukraine on Monday, ripping open a housing bloc in Kyiv, killing 10 civilians and burying
others beneath the rubble.A flurry of diplomatic efforts to end the three-year-long war have stalled, with the last direct meeting between
Kyiv and Moscow coming almost three weeks ago and no follow-up talks scheduled.AFP journalists heard drones over the capital and explosions
ringing out during the barrage.Kyiv resident Natalia Marshavska was awake during the attack and described how the buzzing of a drone grew
louder until it was directly overhead."I realized it was right above us
her apartment before smoke began billowing everywhere, she said."It was horrible."The Russian army said it had used precision weapons and
unmanned aerial vehicles to strike Ukrainian military facilities."All the designated targets were destroyed," it claimed.Zelensky visits
U.K.Prosecutors in Kyiv said nine people were killed in the capital's Shevchenkivsky district, including an 11-year-old girl
Another person was killed in Bila Tserkva, a city south of the capital, officials said.President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia had
were provided by North Korea."Everyone in countries neighboring Russia, Iran and North Korea should be thinking carefully about whether they
could protect lives if this coalition of murderers persists and continues spreading their terror," he added.He landed in the United Kingdom
Russia.Zelensky met with Britain's King Charles III at Windsor Castle and a Ukrainian source also said that he would meet U.K
Prime Minister Keir Starmer.The visit comes ahead of a NATO summit later this week in The Hague.Zelensky is set to attend on the sidelines
but his involvement is being kept to a minimum to avoid a confrontation with U.S
President Donald Trump.Since returning to office, Trump has upended the West's approach towards Russia's war on Ukraine by undercutting Kyiv
and opening the door to closer ties with Moscow.The latest strikes came less than a week after another attack on Kyiv killed at least 28
people.Separate Russian attacks on Monday in the southern Odesa region left two people killed and another dozen wounded, local authorities
said.Zelensky said a school was hit."Sadly, some people may still be trapped under the rubble," he added.In Moscow, the Defense Ministry
said its air defense systems had downed 23 Ukrainian drones over western regions of Russia.Russia occupies around a fifth of Ukraine and
claims to have annexed four Ukrainian regions since invading in 2022
It captured Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in 2014.Kyiv has accused Moscow of deliberately sabotaging a peace deal in order to prolong its
full-scale offensive and to seize more territory.
